The mysterious demo for "P.T." released on PSN yesterday during Sony's Gamescom conference has emerged as a hidden interactive trailer for a new Silent Hill game. What's more, this game is to be directed and produced by the father of Metal Gear, Hideo Kojima, with monster-movie maestro Guillermo Del Toro, and starring The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus.

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The two had been teasing a collaboration in the works for some months, with Kojima dropping pictures of himself with the Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim director all over Twitter. But the surprise reveal of a title card for "Silent Hills" at the end of P.T. (literally Playable Teaser) was a remarkably well-kept secret.

Such a flair for showmanship is an ongoing hallmark of Kojima's. Last year's reveal for the soon-to-be-released Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain involved a similar stunt with a false trailer and the elaborate concoction of a fake studio headed up by one Joakim Mogren (Joakim, of course, being an anagram of Kojima). P.T. follows the trend, with the credited studio, 7780s Studio, being completely unheard of despite the huge technical achievement of making a game look this good.

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The first reports of this twist appeared last night when streamers on Twitch began approaching the end of P.T.'s Groundhog-Day-style narrative of repeating the same exploration of a dark, spooky house with supernatural scrawls on the wall.

One of the first, @gamergirltalks, completed a playthrough with a phone call claiming she had been "chosen" before the final cinematic played, revealing Kojima and Del Toro's involvement, and showing the face of the protagonist to be that of Reedus. You can see the video above, but be warned, there are some loud, excited and confused shrieks, naturally.